Julia Kadel Trio - Kaskaden (2019)

Julia Kadel was born in Berlin in 1986 and began playing the piano at the age of seven. After years of classical education she discovered her passion for jazz at fifteen. After graduation, she began studying psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which she had to end early with the undergraduate degree to devote herself completely to music. Until 2016 she studied jazz piano at the Academy of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Since then, the pianist has been active in numerous projects throughout Germany as a pianist, composer and arranger.

In the spring of 2013 she received the one-year Deutschlandstipendium from her university to promote her artistic activities. In autumn, her trio won the HfM Jazz Prize 2013, awarded by the Saarland University of Music. The debut album of the Julia Kadel Trio "Im Vertrauen" was released on August 29, 2014 by Blue Note / Universal Music. Kadel and her piano trio are nominated for the German Echo Jazz 2015 in two categories - Kadel as "Instrumentalist of the Year National Piano" and the trio as "Newcomer of the Year". In 2016 the second album of the trio "Über und Unter" was released, also on Blue Note under the umbrella of Universal Music.

Since 2016, she started her solo project, with which she has already been heard at numerous festivals. From 2016 to 2017 she worked on her duo project with the Turkish-French cellist Anil Eraslan, with whom she already recorded the debut album "Noise Cloud" (Strasbourg, 2016). Since 2015, Kadel has also been part of the newly formed quartet of the free jazz legend Günter Baby Sommer together with Friedhelm Schönfeld (sax / clar) and Walburga Walde (voc). This is the meeting of two generations of musicians, namely "Before the Wall - after the Wall". In 2017 she received the artist scholarship of the Australian Music Center "AMPlify Germany" and together with the Australian concept artist Julian Day developed the experiment "How To Fail (Together)". In 2018 she founded her duo with the German composer and cellist Thilo Thomas Krigar, with whom she moves into the fields of improvised and new music.

Kadel has since played numerous national and international concerts in countries such as France, England, Norway, Italy, Hungary, Russia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Turkey.